Humongous observation

[DisAl]

Bottom line is they replaced what was a beautiful view of the lagoon and World Showcase for 12 hours a day with something that looks like a marine salvage yard for a 20 minute show. Horrible trade......

 

[Tom 55]

I dont know why they couldnt have had them submerge during the day then rise up for the show, even if not 100 percent submerged to me there were better options, that would have reached the same end goal.

This is the water works at the Disneyland California Adventure. They are usually underwater. They are brought up to work on them. You can see the bubbles coming up from the section on the left. It had just been submerged.

 

[Heppenheimer]

I dont know why they couldnt have had them submerge during the day then rise up for the show, even if not 100 percent submerged to me there were better options, that would have reached the same end goal.

Is the lagoon deep enough for that?

 

[lazyboy97o]

Is the lagoon deep enough for that?

They could have dug out pits or designed the equipment to fold down.

 

[ppete1975]

Is the lagoon deep enough for that?

Its disney it could have been collapsible under water or something, or a big pit dug out, I keep thinking back to bob gurr and thinking that the old WED team wouldnt have built this. Where is that creative genious now? Or do we still have it and they are told no, thats too expensive.

 

[JohnD]

The barges of Harmonious are humongous among us.

 

[JohnD]

The daytime fountains make them look worse -- they tried it.

I'm not sure how they didn't realize that originally because it was pretty obvious that was never going to be a workable solution.

Which makes it obvious they knew the barges were an eyesore when the show was being developed otherwise they wouldn't have tried to develop a poor plan in concealing them.

 

[Nottamus]

A couple days this week I have noticed a pretty good sized murder of crows either living there daytime, or just hanging out in the stargate.
Had to be - 30 ish?

maybe making it a bird sanctuary will work for then next 20 years until it’s replaced

 

[Living the Life]

The barges are just plain U-G-L-Y! UGLY!!

 

[BornOnTheMatterhorn]

They just need to get that cloak of invisibility working. It would be magic!

Universal owns the rights.

 

[JoeCamel]

Universal owns the rights.

JKR for Harry's but the idea is generations old

Cloak of invisibility - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[UNCgolf]

JKR for Harry's but the idea is generations old

Cloak of invisibility - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Not true. JK Rowling invented magic in all forms, not to mention the concept of witches and wizards. It's all hers.

 

[DisneyGentlemanV2.0]

The barges are just plain U-G-L-Y! UGLY!!

The barges are an interesting allegory of what has happened to Disney. The concept of themed entertainment has focused on being immersive - where there are no hints of the real world to drag you away from this other place and time.

The barges take away the "theme" from the "theme park". What was once an immersion in a showcase of the world is now simply "bad show". You are transported to a concert for 5% of the day, and then experience a junkyard for the rest.

Disney has given up on the premise of immersive theme parks at the replaced it with the quest for the bottom line. Keep paying for the smaller portions of food - it's healthier for you!

 

[JoeCamel]

Not true. JK Rowling invented magic in all forms, not to mention the concept of witches and wizards. It's all hers.

She can magically make money appear for sure....

 

[FettFan]

The fountains probably broke during testing (pumps clogged etc.) or maybe the decided constantly soaking the works with the fountains would lead to failures during the show.

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